Fallon

Permits to harvest Christmas trees from areas within the Bureau of Land Management’s Carson City District go on sale Nov. 15.

Oregon Representative and new Fallon resident Bill Post resigned his seat in the Oregon Legislature this month after misunderstanding residency requirements.

The water level at Lahontan State Recreation Area is less than 4% of what it was in 2020, measuring 3,974 acre-feet as of Aug. 20.

Agriculture producers and others are invited to tour field plots in northern Nevada where the University of Nevada, Reno and its partners are researching drought-tolerant and high-demand crops.

UNR’s Experiment Station maintains a network of field stations throughout the state, providing researchers different environments where they can experiment on a larger scale.

The Nevada Highway Patrol has officially closed its case involving the death of a 13-year-old Churchill County Middle school student who was fatally struck on Sept. 25, 2020, while waiting for his school bus at the intersection of Carson River and Rice roads north of Fallon.

Two Fallon farming families were recognized this month by the Nevada Department of Agriculture as Centennial Farms and Homesteads.

In Nevada, which has more coronavirus hospitalizations per capita than any other state, the most visible sign of the surge is the overflow unit that one Reno hospital has set up in its parking garage to treat patients.

Election Day lines were short and voters moved through the voting process quickly this morning at the Fallon Convention Center.

Men and women in Nevada played an important role in World War II, with thousands joining the effort.